That kind of hatred is just wrong… especially towards a child who honestly seemed to think that he was doing what his father would approve of. The boy can learn and maybe even become a worthwhile human being. Wishing a terminal illness on him is beyond unacceptable.

I don’t get why she’s served regular food, though. Kids with special diets due to allergies aren’t served whatever everyone else is having, in case “they’re just fussy eaters” or whatever the justification there is.

She might go through the regular lunch line without saying anything deliberately. When as a child you’re set aside in enough ways, you start to rebel against it by finding ways around it. And as long as she doesn’t go into anaphylactic shock or the like, she can always say ‘I didn’t gets sick so what’s the big deals?’

as well as the fact that she can do trades with the other kids to get more of what each of them want… she gets the meat, they get the veggies and puddings… it works out better that way. if she were to be segregated in her diet and never got any of that to begin with, then they would lose out because they couldn’t trade anything with her anymore and they would have to eat the normal stuff that they don’t like…

In her case it’s not a case of allergies so much as restricted diet, so cross-contamination isn’t a big concern as long as she mostly avoids plant foods. One justification for segregating food for kids with allergies is that sometimes all it takes is for it to be prepared on the same surface or served on the same buffet as something they’ll react to.

She’s an obligatory carnivore, like cats. That essentially means “allergic to vegetable matter” (though in cats’ case, some of it just goes through unchanged). She got sick from eating a grape. I’d think that was severe enough to validate her own lunches.

Yeah, it’d be pretty crazy if carnivores reacted to ANY amount of non-meat stuff. I mean, all the carnivorous lifeforms I’m familiar with grab and eat animals in the wild, and they don’t even have HANDS, so good luck trying to wash it off and separate the meat parts from the stuff-my-prey-had-for-dinner-or-got-stuck-in-its-fur parts.

It should, but on the other hand the Principal was probably so relieved that Trunchbull wasn’t threatening him for once and was actually going to do something about Tommy that the Principal didn’t even think about it.

We don’t know what Dave has planned for this Truck/Selkie encounter. Right now we’re only seeing the back of his head, wait until we can see his face, then we’ll know what kind of “talk” Prof. Tom had with his son.

Oddly enough, even with my intense dislike of bullies, I’m hoping Truck’s going to apologize to her the same way the others did – sincerely, but also because he has to; he went through the same realization of “I’m the bad guy?” as the other kids. In his case the situation was more willful and deliberate on his part and went on longer, but against what I would’ve thought 5 or so pages ago, I have hope for him.